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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts) Wed Oct 26, 2016, 11:12 PM Oct 2016

How White Nationalists Learned To Love Donald Trump

How White Nationalists Learned To Love Donald Trump
Once they believed he was a secret Jew. Now he has more white-power support than any mainstream candidate in modern politics. Here’s how it unfolded.
By J.M. BERGER October 25, 2016

The embrace of Donald Trump by America’s white nationalists has been one of the most surprising and unsettling threads in the 2016 campaign. The celebrity New York developer has been endorsed by the nation’s most prominent neo-Nazis, as well as both current and former Klansmen.

He is supported online by a legion of racist and anti-Semitic trolls, who push his campaign’s message and viciously attack journalists and politicians they see as hostile to Trump. Whether deliberately or not, the candidate, his son Donald Jr. and his surrogates have circulated white nationalist messages and imagery online. The Republican National Committee even displayed a white nationalist’s tweet during the GOP convention

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump-2016-white-nationalists-alt-right-214388
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How White Nationalists Learned To Love Donald Trump (Original Post) workinclasszero Oct 2016 OP
birds of a feather flock together William769 Oct 2016 #1
Neo nazis and the KKK back republican Drumpf workinclasszero Oct 2016 #2
As usual, yes you are! William769 Oct 2016 #3
 

workinclasszero

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2. Neo nazis and the KKK back republican Drumpf
Reply to William769 (Reply #1)
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 11:26 PM
Oct 2016

That's all a decent person needs to know right there, am I right?

Vote democratic, vote Hillary!

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